My dear friend oops56 is no longer with us. He has passed onto greener pastures in the stovie world in the sky. He is dearly missed.

Someday I may make this stove using stainless steel and make them available to the few wood users out there. It's easy for me to get sidetracked and drop a good project such as the one I had going with this stove

I miss our ol' friend, Opps56! Robert was such a character packed with years of knowledge and experiences. He contributed a lot of neat ideas to this forum. He had a very interesting collection of backpacking stoves and gear. I want to go back and review his video on removing rust from metal.

"Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up".....Thomas Edison